Jeff Sahs Violins
Jeff Sahs Violins is a full service shop providing all of the following:
- Bow rehairs/restorations
- Full setups for violin, viola, cello, and double bass
- Extensive repairs, restorations, and reconstructions
We carry only high quality horse hair for bow rehairing. Our shop is stocked with a variety of different grades and types of horse hair. This enables Jeff to fully cater to the different bow needs of violin, viola, cello, and especially bass players.
Bow hair currently in stock:
A large portion of shop work is doing setups. Setups are adjusting and tweeking the physical playability of an instrument, bridges/fingerboards, sound post-strings, pegs-all should compliment each other. It is amazing how many players have suffered for years on poor setups. Bass players are notorious for it. An instrument, be it entry or professional, should be enjoyable to play. The hard part should be the learning to play so practice, practice, practice.
In the shop at most any given time will be a more complicated repair going on. Restorations usually take more time because of the steps involved. The art of restoring is to improve the physical structure of an instrument, maintain its value and ultimately to look as if nothing ever happened.
Many restorations in the past vary between sound post/bass bar cracks, neck resets, button cracks, varnish damage to R.O.B.C. (ran over by car).
Bow hair currently in stock:
- Black-popular with bass players for its aggressive attack on the string.
- Salt and Pepper Grey-again popular with bass players, even, smooth playability.
- Russian Red-strong fairly aggressive hair popular with bass players and fiddle players.
- Mongolian White and Manchurian-your standard high quality while hair suitable for most player needs.
- Canadian White-a strong, thicker hair which is very durable.
- Siberian Stallion-highest grade of white horse hair which is preferred hair by soloists and professional musicians (added charge for this hair).
A large portion of shop work is doing setups. Setups are adjusting and tweeking the physical playability of an instrument, bridges/fingerboards, sound post-strings, pegs-all should compliment each other. It is amazing how many players have suffered for years on poor setups. Bass players are notorious for it. An instrument, be it entry or professional, should be enjoyable to play. The hard part should be the learning to play so practice, practice, practice.
In the shop at most any given time will be a more complicated repair going on. Restorations usually take more time because of the steps involved. The art of restoring is to improve the physical structure of an instrument, maintain its value and ultimately to look as if nothing ever happened.
Many restorations in the past vary between sound post/bass bar cracks, neck resets, button cracks, varnish damage to R.O.B.C. (ran over by car).
